https://abc7.com/post/iconic-reel-inn-restaurant-malibu-among-businesses-were-told-cant-rebuild-palisades-fire/17752016/
Posted on 09/08/2025 7:46:34 PM PDT by know.your.why
MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- The road to recovery after the Palisades Fire has been anything but smooth for a group of historical business owners on the eastern edge of Malibu.
For years, the Reel Inn was a staple along Pacific Coast Highway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard. The famous seafood shack fed surfers and tourists for nearly 40 years.
Its sign is now in a pile of rubble, and because of a yearslong dispute over land use, the Reel Inn may never reopen.
Other businesses are facing the same roadblocks when it comes to rebuilding -- The Topanga Ranch Motel, Wiley's Bait and Tackle, Cholada Thai and Rosenthal Wine Bar.
"When I would go to fish, of course, we would go to Wiley's Bait and Tackle, Cholada Thai all the time to get some curry, some pad thai. Reel Inn was like, my spot. That's where I would always go for clam chowder after," said David Solomon, a surfer who frequented the Reel Inn.
Today, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is using the land, which is owned by California State Parks. They recently informed the destroyed businesses that their leases are cancelled and they can't rebuild.
"Due to the catastrophic property loss associated with the Palisades Fire, DPR has regretfully determined that it will not continue to lease this site," the letter the Reel Inn received read.
"We wanted to rebuild, remodel, expand from day one for thirty years. We thought that somebody from state parks, at some point, would go, 'Look, we're remodeling the whole place down there anyway. These guys have got good press. Why don't we lean in with them and do something cool? And let's do it rather sooner than later because it will make it look like we're getting things going down here.' And the phone, not only didn't ring, but we got that letter two weeks ago," said Andy Leonard, the owner of the Reel Inn.
Is that Phineas Gage?
The Moscow-style 65-story high rises of 2-room apts will soon require similar letters to most of the 16,467 burnt-out home and business owners...
Fewer than 100 rebuilds are underway; the remaining 16,367 are stalled forever...
Newsome and bBass mean to sell the land to a Chinese Red Army company.
Phineas...
It’ll cost millions just to re-number the street addresses..
Newscum will build low income housing in its place why do you all think he ordered the fire set I’ve been saying it since the day after the fire started
I use to eat at the 3rd St. Promenade location (opened by Bob Weir of The Dead) but never at the PCH one. Great food and atmosphere. This is such a shame. https://smdp.com/business/beloved-seafood-shack-the-reel-inn-permanently-closes-after-wildfire/
Send in the Coastal Commission to finish off what’s left of all private property along the PCH. Unless, of course, you’re a wealthy democrat in good standing with the party. I dealt with them working construction many moons ago. They make any HOA look like saints.
The scummy powers that be will build low income housing there in Malibu by the ocean. There will be a list for the po’ peoples to sign up for this scenic housing. But reality is only connected democrat apparatchiks will be able to scam their way into these very spiffy, ultra low rent Malibu units. And there will be no income or assets test.
“The scummy powers that be will build low income housing there in Malibu by the ocean. There will be a list for the po’ peoples to sign up for this scenic housing. But reality is only connected democrat apparatchiks will be able to scam their way into these very spiffy, ultra low rent Malibu units. And there will be no income or assets test.”
Your scenario is so true to reality it’s scary.
“Jazz Hands” - Little Mousselini.
Creepy Gavin just could not contain the glee of the demons inside him. Every time I see that clip, I want to punch him in the face even harder.
I know someone who is working on the Lahaina demo and rebuild. They have signed so many NDAs that you can’t even ask them about it or they will clam up.
People in high places have plans for all that real estate. They didn’t help it burn down for no reason.
The state has already put road blocks on anyone who wants to rebuild. The state will try to do the same thing the left did in Hawaii.
We need the full weight of the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS and the FTC to fall on the nazis at the coastal commission and the governor of the state of California.
The lack of water in the reservoirs, the DEI at the fire department leading to gross incompetence? That was no accident. That was part of the plan. You want to hear the best part? They had the residents of Pacific Pallisades dutifully voting for it the whole time like good little liberals! Yes, that's right! The morons were voting for their own destruction!
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." H.L. Mencken
Citizen: Do not complain about NDAs.
They are part of our accountability and transparency initiative!
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